Assessing System Design

Assessing System Design

Introduction to the Company

Wal-Mart is one of the renowned names in the Retailing Industry. It offers products of all categories to its customers. Wal-Mart is held in high regard among the customers since it caters to the distinct needs of its customers in an efficient manner. Wal-Mart offers all products under one roof and offers the customers an economical price associated with their products.

There has been increasing trust of consumers on Wal-Mart because of the fact that Wal-Mart not only offers economical prices but as well as offers optimum quality products. Thus customers get a dual advantage while purchasing from Wal-Mart. Customers not only get the best price but also consume products that offer the highest quality. Wal-Mart not only focuses on retailing but has also diversified to conduct Electronic Commerce and even on mobile devices. Thus it has diversified its business prospects through various channels.

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the resounding success of Wal-Mart. Not only the cost factor but also Wal-Mart has focused on adopting the latest technological devices in reaching out to its customers (Besecker, A. 2009).

Wal-Mart not only focuses on its customers but also has technological mechanisms in place for suppliers. Suppliers play a significant role in the successful performance of world leading organizations. Thus Wal-Mart has also focused its attention on acquiring majority of the suppliers. The innovative decision making, Technological processes and offering economical prices have been major forces that drive the successful performance of Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart's Management System

Wal-Mart is an established retain store in the United States, and the organization has its store in various other countries. This is merely the organization's management system, which has made it to become one of the biggest retaining organizations in the world. There is no doubt that the management system of Wal-Mart is very strong, with every aspect either it is organizational structure, work force, process or technological system (Smyth, N. 2009). Established in 1962 and currently dealing with more than 8500 franchises and 2.2 million employees, the organization has set examples of management and large scale operation for other retail stores chain, transversally across the globe (Smyth, N. 2009).

This paper is structured to understand the system design of one of the most organized organization, operating with state of the art management system. The organization chosen is already discussed. Furthermore, this paper will elucidate the management system of Wal-Mart in term of operation, process, people and technology (Besecker, A. 2009).

Organizational System

As a multinational organization, Wal-Mart has a strong organization system that actually defines the organization hierarchy of the business. Every member of the hierarchy is fully aware of his/her job description. The organization has more than 2.2 million employees, however, the business in lead by Walton Family (Smyth, N. 2009). Currently, Mr. S. Robson Walton is the chairperson of the organization. Since the business is operating in more than 8500 location, thus the company has hired different region managers and other administrative staff to run the business on the ...